Aerial View:
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from September 3, 2013

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Tue. 9/3/13 6:18pm
Green Mountain Man Mark:
When I was 12 I think I must have listened to Eddie Murphy Raw between 100-100,000 times. The tape wore out and I would listen to it sound slow and warped. We would crack the hell up every time.

Tue. 9/3/13 6:19pm
Danne D:
Ugh, I remember being at a comedy show - it was actually a work related thing and I was pretty new in this particular industry - and the jerk comedian had no material except for my last name apparently. I like think that he's working at a Stuckey's somewhere now.

Tue. 9/3/13 6:26pm
Julia:
I had a similar experience last weekend, without the big awkward confrontation. Every comedian thinks they're Don Rickles all of a sudden.

Tue. 9/3/13 6:28pm
Danne D:
A bunch of us walked out on midget wrestling once. That was largely b/c we quickly realized what a poor choice we had made.

Tue. 9/3/13 6:30pm
Danne D:
I remember being at a comedy show where this younger guy and girl were seated at front. So the first comedian goes - "So you two together?" and the guy explains that she's his cousin. A couple mild jokes and the comedian moves on.

By the 4th comedian, basically everyone in the crowd just said "She's his cousin" - not quite a heckle in the conventional sense - the comedian was "Okay then"

I think you may have been a tiny bit unfair to the comedian - yes, the material he was getting into was better suited to someone who can wield a comedy scalpel with a surgeon's skill, and no, he had no scalpel. But I'm not so sure it was fair to compare his level of nuance to a dull axe. I'd say it was a little more like a machete.

Tue. 9/3/13 6:48pm
JoeyX:
Can't dial in, Chris, as i'm at work, sadly. My dad had a story of someone heckling Louis Prima at the 4am "Blue" show in the lounge in the early 60s. The guy got up to leave in the middle of the set, and Prima watched him, finished his drink, and threw the shot glass at the back of the heckler's head and hit him. He then threatened to beat him up from the stage, and then the band went into the next song. The Wildest, indeed.

Tue. 9/3/13 6:48pm
Julia:
a spotlight? invite them up on stage?

Tue. 9/3/13 6:48pm
your solution:
put him in a glass box, or a remote locale?

Tue. 9/3/13 6:55pm
Jeff:
I went to a Kids in the Hall "reunion" performance some years back. I'm sure it was completely unreasonable for me to hope for much, but I'd enjoyed their earlier work, and hoped there was even a tiny chance that those talented guys might come up with a few fresh funny bits...

...but the audience kept shouting out memorized lines from their old sketches, and indeed most of the audience apparently wanted the guys to just re-perform favorite bits they'd done before.

I just don't get it. We've already seen those old bits. Those old bits were really good, but they're of a previous time, and they were recorded, and we can watch then whenever we want. Why would anyone want to spend money and go all the way to a public place to take part in a collective reciting of old material?

So that sucked. I bet it was even worse at, say, post-TV Monty Python appearances.

Tue. 9/3/13 6:55pm
robert (karlsruhe! germany):
send him to karlsruhe in south-west germany. hell on earth. ready for some "gallows humor."